Iver C. Olsen

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Iver C. Olsen (1904 – November 5, 1960) was an American who recruited Raoul Wallenberg.

He worked for the Department of Commerce in the 1930s. He was an agent for the Office of Strategic Services and worked at the War Refugee Board during World War II. He also worked for the International Cooperation Administration. In 1954 he was the Washington, DC representative of Tripp and Co. ^[1]

[edit] Publication

• Iver C. Olsen; Rights of foreign shareholders of European corporations (United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce) (1929) ISBN B0008AWPV4

[edit] References

1. ^ Allan Gersten; A Conspiracy of Indifference: The Raoul Wallenberg Story

• New York Times; March 16, 1931, Monday; Washington, March 15, 1931. Despite expansion of British loans to Latin America in 1930, American loans to all foreign nations last year exceeded those of Great Britain by more than $300,000,000, according to a survey by Iver C. Olsen of the Department of Commerce which was made public today.
• New York Times; October 11, 1954; Joins Tripp in Washington.
• Washington Post; November 6, 1960; Iver C. Olsen, former economic adviser with the International Cooperation Administration, died yesterday at Arlington Hospital after a short illness. He was 56.